BNSS 95 — Procedure as to letters.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

(1) If any document, parcel or thing in the custody of a postal authority
is,  in  the opinion  of  the  District  Magistrate,  Chief  Judicial  Magistrate,  Court  of  Session  or  High  Court
wanted  for  the  purpose  of  any  investigation,  inquiry,  trial  or  other  proceeding  under  this  Sanhita,  such
Magistrate or Court may require the postal authority to deliver the document, parcel or thing to such person
as the Magistrate or Court directs.

(2) If any such document, parcel or thing is, in the opinion of any other Magistrate, whether Executive
or Judicial, or of any Commissioner of Police  or District Superintendent of Police, wanted  for any such
purpose, he may require the postal authority to cause search to be made for and to detain such document,
parcel  or  thing  pending  the  order  of  a  District  Magistrate,  Chief  Judicial  Magistrate  or  Court  under
sub-section (1).
B.—Search-warrants

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